Catalog

BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog is an enterprise app store solution designed to be the center of your digital workplace. Through a single administration dashboard, different departments in an organization can aggregate, manage, deliver, and track hardware, software, and services from multiple cloud-based and on-premises sources.

For BMC Helix Business Workflows, BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog is a single place for case catalog administrators to create, maintain, and track services for different departments like HR, Finance, Facilities, and so on. It also enables case catalog administrators to create questionnaires to define the information that employees should provide while requesting for a service.

Relationship between a case and service request

From BMC Helix Business Workflows, a case catalog administrator can directly access BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog and create services that are specific to BMC Helix Business Workflows. A case catalog administrator can provide services to groups of employees so that they can view services to which they are entitled and review statuses of service requests. When employees of a company request these services from the BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced client application, corresponding cases are created automatically in BMC Helix Business Workflows. The information from service requests is displayed in the corresponding case. If a service request contains an attachment, it is displayed on the Attachments pane in the corresponding case.

By default, a case catalog administrator functional role in BMC Helix Business Workflows is an Internal Supplier Administrator in BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced. When you access BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog from BMC Helix Business Workflows, you can only create and view services for BMC Helix Business Workflows.

If you want a full access to BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog, you need to log in to BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced and access BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog.

Communication between a case agent and an employee

The bi-directional communication enables case agents and employees to share the latest information about a request that is visible in both service request and case. Case agents can post comments on cases and employees can post comments service requests.

A case agent can view the employee comments, with attachments, if any, in the activity feed of a case. In a service request, an employee can view the status updates of a case or public comments that a case agent posts in a case.

Updates to a service request based on the case status

The following table provides the out-of-the-box mappings between case and service request statuses:

Case status	Service Request status
New Assigned In Progress	In Progress
Pending	Pending
Resolved	Resolved
Canceled	Canceled
Closed	Closed

When a service request is canceled, the corresponding case is also canceled.

A case catalog administrator cannot modify the out-of-the-box status mappings.

Overview of Catalog

The following figure explains how various concepts of the BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog lead to a case creation from a service request:

The following table describes the concepts that are related to BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog:

Concept	Description	Reference
Connector	Connects BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced with BMC Helix Business Workflows to ensure that whenever an employee submits a request, a corresponding case is created.	Configuring service connectors
Workflow	A workflow is a graphical representation of a process that a case catalog administrator creates by using the Process Designer in BMC Helix Innovation Studio. A workflow is an integral part of a service request because it determines how the service request should be processed. A workflow helps in defining the following details related to a service request. : Information that employees must provide when they submit a request. Template with which a case should be created automatically. Number of cases that should be created for a service request, and so on.	Creating workflows
Questionnaire	A questionnaire contains information like Name, Contact, Company, Description, Summary, and so on that employees need to provide when they submit service requests.	Creating service questionnaires
Service	A service is a collection of workflows and information that a case catalog administrator creates. When employees use these services to raise a request and provide the required information, the underlying workflows are run and the service request is processed.	Adding and updating services

Sub-catalog

After a case catalog administrator creates services in BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog, these services form a sub-catalog. When a case catalog administrator accesses BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog from BMC Helix Business Workflows, only the services that are specific to BMC Helix Business Workflows are displayed. When the case catalog administrator accesses BMC Helix Digital Workplace Catalog from BMC Helix Digital Workplace Advanced, all the available services are displayed.

For more information about subcatalogs, see Sub-catalogs Open link .